[Buildroot] [v4 11/13] help/manual: update help about the new $(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Mon Apr 2 11:59:39 UTC 2018


Maxime, All,

On 2018-04-02 10:14 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian spake thusly:
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian at gmail.com>

Reviewed-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

> ---
>  Config.in                               | 3 +++
>  docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt | 6 +++---
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Config.in b/Config.in
> index 71b9f60e5b..c2a1925088 100644
> --- a/Config.in
> +++ b/Config.in
> @@ -200,6 +200,9 @@ config BR2_DL_DIR
>  	  If the Linux shell environment has defined the BR2_DL_DIR
>  	  environment variable, then this overrides this configuration
>  	  item.
> +	  The directory is organized with a subdirectory for each package.
> +	  Each package has its own $(LIBFOO_DL_DIR) variable that can be used
> +	  to find the correct path.
>  
>  	  The default is $(TOPDIR)/dl
>  
> diff --git a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> index 9d1428ad40..62906d92bb 100644
> --- a/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> +++ b/docs/manual/adding-packages-generic.txt
> @@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ information is (assuming the package name is +libfoo+) :
>    the file using this URL. Otherwise, Buildroot will assume the file
>    to be downloaded is located at +LIBFOO_SITE+. Buildroot will not do
>    anything with those additional files, except download them: it will
> -  be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(DL_DIR)+.
> +  be up to the package recipe to use them from +$(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)+.
>  
>  * +LIBFOO_SITE_METHOD+ determines the method used to fetch or copy the
>    package source code. In many cases, Buildroot guesses the method
> @@ -554,8 +554,8 @@ In the action definitions, you can use the following variables:
>  * +$(@D)+, which contains the directory in which the package source
>    code has been uncompressed.
>  
> -* +$(DL_DIR)+ contains the path to the directory where all the downloads made
> -  by Buildroot are stored.
> +* +$(LIBFOO_DL_DIR)+ contains the path to the directory where all the downloads
> +  made by Buildroot for +libfoo+ are stored in.
>  
>  * +$(TARGET_CC)+, +$(TARGET_LD)+, etc. to get the target
>    cross-compilation utilities
> -- 
> 2.16.2
> 
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